Ricerc@Sapienza

The project reflects the identity of the Department of Letters and modern Cultures (LCM), which brings together some of the most important scientific and educational communities in the humanities at Sapienza University, enhancing the contribution of archival, documentary, library and geographic sciences. The aim is structured into 3 areas: 1) Multiscalar context analysis and mapping of cultural infrastructures (archives, libraries, cultural centers, museums, etc.) to identify their distribution on Italian territory and to relate them to the indicators of the ISTAT BES Report and the social determinants of health; 2) to carry out a nationwide sample survey on the impact generated by the same infrastructures in the paradigm of human development, with a focus on combating illiteracy and overcoming the digital divide; 3) to carry out a specific in-depth study on the cultural production to which the mapped infrastructures contribute. The project follows the department's strategic plan that evokes the 2030 Agenda and SDGs and its aim is to put at the service of Open science research the strong interdisciplinary vocation of LCM that allows organic action and impact in many areas of interest to civil society (school, publishing, cultural heritage, cultural professions and associations, entertainment and cultural production). In addition, the project is conceived as complementary to the Department of Excellence project related to Philology as European memory - Europhil - and could be configured as an opportunity from the scientific point of view and the recruitment of new researchers. This project's main goal is in producing public goods in the area of social, educational, and inclusion policy; it also enhances the applied research experiences carried out by the department's seven research and educational laboratories, particularly the Laboratory of Social Librarianship and Applied Library Research (BIBLAB), the GeoCartographic Laboratory and the Museum of Geography.